458 Painting

Transfiguration, and a Nativity of S. John the Baptist, are considered the finest. He is represented in our National Gallery by a group of Susannah and the Elders. His principal characteristics are easy grace of execution, power of expressing sorrow, and skilful imitation of the chiar- oscuro of Correggio. Agostino Carracci is better known as an engraver than Fig. 15y. — The Three Maries. By Annibale Carracci. In the Castle Howard Gallery. a painter; but he produced several fine easel pictures noticeable for delicacy of execution, of which two — Gephalus and Aurora, and the Triumph of Galatea — are in the National Gallery. Annibale Carracci greatly excelled both Lodovico and Agostino, and, had he not been fettered by his mistaken desire to combine naturalism with imitation of the great